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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3</H1>
    <B>Barry Jackson</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jan 31 23:02:20 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On 31/01/13 21:41, zezinho wrote:
&gt;<i> Em 31-01-2013 22:26, Maurice Batey escreveu:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> To be absolutely clear, I have never placed any boot-loader in any PBR
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> on this system.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>    *That* is the information  I was after!
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It appears to confirm that GRUB2 does *not* need GRUB-legacy in a
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> root partition's PBR to be able to boot it.
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</I>&gt;<i> I've just tried a Live Gnome USB install, installing GRUB2 to /dev/sda7
</I>&gt;<i> (so in the PBR). This failed crashing draklive installer :
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8903">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8903</A>
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Yes this is not supported, however if you read 
/usr/share/doc/grub2/README.Mageia or have a good read at more recent 
comments in #406 it will become clear ;)
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